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Related: About this forumWhat If High School Were More Like Kindergarten?
Students in the U.S. are being taught to focus only on becoming educated.
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/08/learning-versus-education/494660/?utm_content=37813682&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook
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What If High School Were More Like Kindergarten? (Original Post)
elleng
Sep 2016
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(1,219 posts)1. Excellent!
mopinko
(72,143 posts)2. what if kindergarten was more like high school, or college.
what if they got to follow their curiosity, and work those muscles of exploration and self education.
that's how we did it .
elleng
(137,814 posts)3. That's how my daughter(s) are doing it (I hope.)
On the 'farm,' at the beach, exploring/repairing, etc etc etc.
Astraea
(525 posts)4. High school was like kindergarten
for me - the teachers were paid to babysit.
My apologies to kindergarten teachers. From what I remember of kindergarten, not much was taught to us.